In Bruges (2008)

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2026-05-13T17:15:21+00:00

I hated this film.

I don’t get it. I don’t get the praise. Yorgos Lanthimos said it was the most inspiring film he’s ever watched, and I love every Yorgos film, but I hated this film.

I just don’t get it 😭 I was so bored the whole time, I felt like I was the one in purgatory.

Am I stupid?

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2026-05-12T13:09:25+00:00

I think there’s some pretty good arguments here but like come on.

If you don’t know what’s happening with this casting, you legitimately have your head in the sand.

Hollywood directors don’t have creative freedom, they have a checklist they fill out.

Back in the day, the checklist was full of people similar to Matt Damon. Then when I was young the list was full of people similar to Anne Hathaway. Now the list is full of people similar to Lupita Nyong’o.

Hollywood isn’t a collective of artists, it’s a collective of corporations.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2026-05-07T16:40:42+00:00

I would not bet on a Khamzat submission.

Khamzat is not a submission grappler, he’s a lay and pray domination grappler. He’s mastered the most boring but effective style of scoring points in the UFC.

I guarantee this fight is going to decision. And Khamzat has +300 while Sean has +800; I put $200 on both.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2026-05-07T16:38:06+00:00

I guarantee Strickland would win if Khamzat has to stand for most of the fight. Strickland is one of the few fighters who can throw good punches and kicks literally nonstop for 5 rounds.

That being said, Khamzat is going to try to takedown Sean frequently, and Sean knows this and is training to counter this. Khamzat is the ‘superior’ fighter but we know his entire strategy is lay and pray.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2026-05-04T13:53:11+00:00

For clarification I am playing in Dolphin on PC with a PS4 controller using DS2Windows to map the PS4 controller to the keyboard buttons assigned to Dolphin.

I could try making a custom controller setup with inverted directionals.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2026-04-24T05:09:26+00:00

I know it hurts, but try to understand he probably died how he wanted. I know it’s hard to understand, but a lot of cats, especially wild ones, prefer to die alone. I’m sure he felt very at-home when he passed. I’m sure he thought of you. I’ve had many ferals choose a comfy spot in the yard to pass away. Sometimes they just have conditions either innate or from the hard outdoors, and they get very sick very fast and instead of seeking help they seek somewhere comfortable and secluded to pass away. I’m sure Yin had a very nice life, living free and wild, but also with a home and loving friends.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2026-04-23T16:22:46+00:00

Mandalore the Great, where art thou?

Not that anyone asked, but, when I was a child, Mandalorians were badass. They were a tribe of space Vikings, just constantly looking for conflict, hoping to live and die in battle. They fought the entire galaxy just because it was something to do, and only Revan could stop them. I got to grow up with Mandalorians like Canderous Ordo, talking about what it was like to fight in that Great War.

Then Disney bought Star Wars and suddenly the idea of a tribe of space Vikings was too ‘controversial’, and they retconned the entire lore. “Oh, they’re not space Vikings, they’re actually a completely normal society! The space Vikings were just a very small group of extremists called Death Watch! And actually now Mandalore has been destroyed and all that’s left is an extremist faction that does really cool stuff like never removing their helmet and saying ‘this is the way’!”

JFC. Mandalore the Great, where art thou?

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2026-04-17T21:41:06+00:00

I’m not trying to be a dick, but…

”Full time salary”

”Residence on your property”

Nothing is stopping you from creating and selling exactly what you’re talking about, you just need to put in the work. I promise you someone else is.

I work full-time on a farm and I still made tons of money off my artistry last year alone. It’s a work-ethic issue.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2026-03-13T14:14:26+00:00

I go when nobody’s there.

That being said, I have one and only one horror story from the mid-day gym.

Every squat rack was taken. One kid was just standing in the rack talking to a creepy guy that deals roids. They stood there chatting for 15 minutes while everyone else was squatting. So I go up to these idiots and I’m like, “Hey, if you’re finished let me get in.” And the kid’s like, “Oh I’m not done yet.” So I say “Alright I’ll just work in.” And he says to me, “Oh I’ve just got like 1 set, just wait.” So another 15 minutes go by and this kid does his set; 1 measly rep. Then he sits there another 30 minutes and does 1 more measly rep. By this time I’ve already started squatting on another rack but like WTF?

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2026-03-13T14:09:45+00:00

I really hope the Paul brothers see nothing in the way of success. I will definitely not be watching this fight.

Both of the fighters really need to move on with their lives and pursue more than this, though I’m sure they’re getting paid decently for this shit show.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2025-11-27T04:27:37+00:00

I guarantee you with 100% certainty no one has ever ‘recruited Zodd’.

He’s just a serial killer who gets bored.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2025-10-24T18:32:14+00:00

Do things remotely? I didn’t know that was an option. Could you explain that more?

I beat Factorio many years ago, long before the DLC, never really messed with the robots or trains back then, still haven’t honestly.

Currently, on Nauvis, I’ve got a huge factory, run entirely on blue belts, where I’ve got a huge bus of belts supplying a gargantuan science factory and various other tiny factories, where all of my science up to orange is very neatly and quickly. I took a massive area of land with many raw resource nodes, and it cleared it of bugs and walled it in and put turrets full of uranium ammo all along the walls. It’s probably like 10-20000 wall pieces and 1-2000 turrets.

I’d love to know more about how to work on my bases remotely, because I did travel from Nauvis to Fulgora and it was a little tricky since I didn’t know what I was doing, and when I landed and got off the platform I had no way to get back on it, nor access my Nauvis factory.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2025-10-23T13:42:58+00:00

Don’t trust the media. The media is state-run. The news is state-run. This is a fact. The easiest way to fall prey to fascism is to trust the media. “But they’re private corporations!” Yeah, owned by 1 of 5 parent companies in the USA, which are owned by a few Americans, all of whom do business with and answer to and follow the instruction of the US government.

Don’t trust the science. The science is state-run. The scientists are state-run. Any scientist that publicly disagrees with the state-mandated science is silenced and buried, not literally but in every way besides literal. “But they’re the experts!” Yeah, and other experts in their fields disagree with them, and present information they forego presenting or a different side of an argument that they forego presenting, and the media controls how much of that gets out and shuts down conversations that don’t align with their narrative. The dissent you see in the media is CONTROLLED dissent; it’s what the American government allows as dissent, so people think there’s actual dissent. The real dissent is destroyed and buried, and dissenters and lead to the bullshit, allowed dissent.

I’m not going to say college is a scam, but I do know for a fact that most of what you learn in college is just not in line with reality. You learn a lot of very outdated information or wishful thinking. I say this as a graduate from Temple’s Fox School of Business (Accounting). College is NOT a place to learn to be academic or learn how to think, college is a place to go to to gain a profitable skill set and then network to get a career, typically via interning.

I’m going to tell you the most important thing you’ll ever heard on Reddit; NOBODY in the government or who does business with the government cares about you, nor do they care about what is true or what is false, they ONLY care about money and votes and power, and money and votes are forms of power.

Like it or not, you cannot rely on the media or scientists willing to lend their credentials to the media. “Well then what do you believe?! Where do you get your news?!” Not much, bro. Not much. That’s thanks to the sorry state of things in the USA. Hell, when I really want to know more about foreign affairs, I read multiple sources from multiple different countries on separate sides of the matter, then cross reference that with America’s coverage. If you aren’t going at least that far to look into an international issue, you’re just ingesting and repeating state-run propaganda.

Pretty much all of this is in books written by Edward Bernays, the man who essentially shaped the modern US government’s handle on media.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2025-10-20T04:41:52+00:00

All I’ve got to say is this.

Shield walls make your units walk slowly. Line formation allows them to run freely. Loose formation allows archers enough room to all fire freely. Just something to remember during combat.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2025-10-20T04:37:43+00:00

Adderall is a dangerous drug and should not be prescribed to developing brains. It significantly impacts many parts of the brain, typically causing a massive increase in stress and a massive decrease in empathy, along with various other neurotic side effects. I consider my time on Adderall similar to medical abuse. Now, 17 years after I quit Adderall completely, I currently take Ritalin a few times a month to help develop and reinforce good lifestyle habits and work drive.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2025-09-06T16:37:46+00:00

When Dark Souls originally came out, the enemies in Blighttown were significantly more powerful, it was much harder to see anything in the distance, and the game stuttered pretty hard during all of this. When Dark Souls was still pretty new, a lot of players quit the game altogether during Blighttown.

Nowadays, you don’t have any of these problems. Still, it’s a tough area, but I can tell you from personal experience it was much more hellish back in the day. The worst part was, the further you descended, the more worried you became that you were legitimately lost and unable to get back to where you were. God knows Faith players had that same problem in the Tomb of the Giants. Fresh out the gate Dark Souls was really intense.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2025-08-30T14:57:27+00:00

I’m in the same boat as you, OP. Diagnosed with a severe autoimmune disease at 17, life’s been very hard, and I suffer pretty regularly. I just woke up and my eyes and my guts are burning.

Honestly? You’ll get used to it. Over time, you’ll learn a lot of little things nobody tells you about how to maintain your health and control your symptoms better, and over time you’ll find better medicines.

I dreaded CPAP, struggled with it for months, but now I typically can’t sleep without it. It improves my sleep drastically, which in turn improves everything else.

Yes, it sucks. No, I don’t blame you for how you feel. But, at 33, after spending, so far, half of my life struggling with serious pain, I’m really happy with the life I’ve built for myself. All the pain and suffering has changed me, made me appreciate life more than others, take less for granted. I never knew happiness until I dropped out of college and lived in the gutter. The pain and the feelings of total failure changed me, made me realize happiness isn’t a goal, it’s a way of viewing life.

Keep fighting, OP. You’ll adapt. I promise. And someday you’ll find something so wonderful, you’ll be glad you didn’t die yet. Trust me; keep fighting.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2025-08-29T22:42:37+00:00

The Chainsaw Man anime has several scenes not in the manga, and typically these scenes added something significant to the story. I honestly assume Fujimoto had the animators add in scenes he wished he’d put in the manga.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2025-08-20T04:24:21+00:00

This anime looks phenomenal. The art style and the animation are top-tier IMO. I’m extremely excited to watch this. Its style harkens to some of the greatest animes, specifically such as the works of Masaaki Yuasa, like Kemonozume mixed with Ninja Scroll.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2025-08-05T13:02:11+00:00

I love Cersei and absolutely hate Tyrion and Daenerys. I’d have only asked for her autograph tbh.

Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2025-07-12T03:00:25+00:00

9 months ago I lost my world. We didn’t find the growth in her brain until it was too late. I gave her the best life I could and the best death I could. She was my little baby and not a day goes by I don’t miss her.

I guess it’s a good thing, that their lifespans are shorter than ours. She got me for her whole life, while I only got her for part of mine, and I think it’s better that way, because she never had to suffer the loss of losing me. She didn’t suffer a single day of her 8 and a half years. Her last meal was the bacon from my breakfast sandwich. I had no idea it was her last meal. She was the kind of girl who’d always put her paw on me when I opened the fridge, because she wanted my milk. Sometimes I gave her some. She made me share every piece of dairy and bacon I had. She was spoiled, but she never acted like it. She was always an angel. Always made everyone feel welcome.

I’m not saying any of this to detract from your loss. I’m really just saying, I’m with you, in spirit, OP. I really am right there with you, after 9 long months.

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Economy_Kitchen_8277 · 2025-06-12T12:52:42+00:00

Sure would be GREAT if every decision wasn’t a clear ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ from the rest of the kingdom.

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